Show THROUGH A w ama na ns eyes ey ro S by JEAN NEWTON DOING NOTHING USEFUL T HAD two hundred letters waiting I 1 a few days ago and I 1 deliberately went out for the afternoon and spent two hours reading poetry this was entirely outside nay my schedule and you will probably raise your hands in hor at the thought of breaking up a well budgeted day but I 1 believe in the end it makes for better quality of work mrs franklin D Roose roosevelt Nelt wrote that not long ago in a message on the necessity of every person occasionally to learn to loaf sometimes it Is extremely good for you to forget that there Is anything any thine in the world that needs to be done and to do some particular thing that you w want ant to do she remarked every M ery human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful peace may take the form of exercise or reading or any con genial occupation but one thing which must not be connected with it is a sense of obligation to do some lar th ng at some particular time that is a message which should be reprinted and sent to every woman particularly every wife and mo me her in the country the man or woman with a job and office hours may work very nery hard they may be under great stress and strain but usually when they shut the door of the office behind them they know that time of peace which Is in deed necessary to every human bein that time when there is nothing in part cular that they have to do when a man comes home his time of tion begins and so with the working girl who ubo comes home to her mother or the bachelor woman roman who returns to her flat usually the time there has no strings tied to it but the wife and mother I 1 how aptly some one said hers Is the clock that has no hands take a rainy sunday there may be no cards or games the papers may be read then the family will be just sitting around but mother oh no that s a chance to catch up on the darning or to start that sweater she wants to knit for little jane she doesn t have to fold her hands to resti rest I 1 but doesn doean t she I 1 if it were not for that darning or knitting on her mind would she not enjoy occasionally just folding her hands and sitting around 1 I 1 say she may not even enen know it but she would I 1 say that every woman who keeps house should keep some time free for what mrs roosevelt calls a time for being peaceful a time when she will do nothing that could possibly be called useful a bell cate sen sem ice |